Tell Me What Fallout 3 Mods to use!

[Arcanum]

Right so I'm beginning my foray into the world of PC gaming, and everyone knows PC gaming isn't PC gaming with mods to make your games even better. So I got my hands on Fallout 3, GOTY edition, and as I'm sure you all know there are hundreds and hundreds of different mods for the game. So basically, tell me which mods I really need to download. I'll have you all know that I have played through Fallout 3 before on my 360, so any mods that fundamentally change the experience are welcome.

[Krylo]

I don't use many mods in FO3, myself. Didn't feel it really needed them. Mostly just cosmetic and destructible big gun ammo/destructible mini nukes (makes it so you can blow up mini-nukes/missiles etc. when they are sitting about in the world, or say, set a mini-nuke next to a bottle cap mine and make a nuclear mine).

I also found and grabbed a Sig Sauer, which adds an FO1/2 styled Sig Sauer pistol to the game as random raider gear. It's a pretty rare, but very powerful gun... that makes raiders somewhat dangerous even at higher levels.

There's also some ammo mod that's pretty popular which I can't remember the name of, and a mod that adds a bunch of stuff from the original two FOs as far as difficulty customization etc. goes (adds weight to ammo, etc.) Never grabbed it myself, as I don't generally like artificially increasing difficulty by making things more obnoxious (more random weight) instead of actually making the game harder... but it's popular.

[Odjn]

FWE is a customizable mod that adds quite a lot of difficulty and realism to the game and best of all everything is customizable in how much of it you want. You can be perfectly vanilla except for double the amount of Rads you get for example. It's also quite badass in its choice of weaponry- nearly everything from FO2 comes back.